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You’re not referring to America, right? I could be behind on certain policies but that’d seem to fly in the face of the fifth amendment (or is concealment not

• CGamesPlay 8y ago
  The fifth amendment says you cannot be forced to incriminate yourself. Actively destroying evidence that could incriminate you is not covered by that.
• krastanov 8y ago
  The 5th and 4th have a rather weird status at border crossings. You can be denied entry to the country if you refuse to share passwords, for instance. Or have your equipment be confiscated. Some of this has even been upheld in court.
  • harshreality 8y ago
    While everyone, including U.S. citizens and permanent residents, can have their electronics confiscated (stolen) for refusal to cooperate... Citizens and permanent residents cannot generally be refused entry for flexing their rights. There are a few ways permanent residents can be denied entry, but the main one is having been out of the country for over 180 days. Temporary residents and visitors are the ones who can be denied entry for looking at an immigration agent wrong, or trying to flex their right against absurd digital searches. However much we might wish for things to be different. Europe and Oceana may have a less intrusive policy about digital searches, but everywhere else is either worse than the USA, or isn't developed enough to have paranoid security services that want to search everything.
• loeg 8y ago
  The 4th and 5th amendments have been severely degraded since 9/11: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone